pigeonburger
12hr ago
Yeah, but what I'm saying is that the move back away from Europe is going to be even less attractive, much less attractive.
pigeonburger
15hr ago
The obvious difference is that while they could likely not expect to be as big a fish in that fishtank, the Pieds-noirs had a comparatively wealthier country they could move to. For an Algerian descendant in France, being "repatriated" back to Algeria would be a big step down.
pigeonburger
15hr ago
Dominic Cummings always said that the idea of competently managed mass immigration (i.e. a Canadian/Australian points system) focus grouped as popular in the UK.
I dunno about Australia, but the main issue with Canada's point system is chain migration and alternative pathways. Coming to Canada saying "I want to immigrate here because I want better opportunities" is appropriately hard, but what often happens is getting accepted by a school that's mostly a facade (it's rarely recognized schools, it's "mall campuses" that are nominally linked with real institutions) then after moving and "studying" (usually working most of the time, then doing whatever the minimum is necessary to keep qualifying as a student; the "school" doesn't care, it's in on the grift) they leverage easier immigration pathways for people who have studied here, because that too polls well (and sending back students polls badly). Because it sounds reasonable to say that since someone was able to study and work part time to support his studies here, they are probably a good fit to stay here if they want. If that's what it was, if it was only people who truly studied and integrated, and worked alongside Canadian nationals, as opposed to moving here under false pretense and working "immigrant jobs" (Uber, delivery, immigrant dominated fast foods like Tim Hortons), then I'd support it.
Then there's chain migration, once one person gets their citizenship, they can start sponsoring family to go through a pathway that also bypasses the points system.
pigeonburger
1d ago
I wouldn't know, I'm a Fountains Of Wayne supremacist.
pigeonburger
1d ago
I think geeky guys would love women into geeky pursuits.
But that's urquan's points; are these men looking for girls that are into the same things they are, or for girls that are into "geeky girl" pursuits?
I have been single for most of my adult life, I couldn't find many girls that were into the things I was in. The few dates I had where it clicked with the girls were into museums and arts, one of the girls I had a very enjoyable date with was a jazz musician. These are geeky things, those girls were geeks, but not "guys with boobs".
More recently, and after I found and married by wife, I ended up having to work, for a little while, for a company that did services for libraries (like categorizing, writing descriptions, and stuff like that). The whole place was filled top to bottom with mousey, shy librarian-type girls, some very good looking, that were for the most part a bit awkward interacting with a straight guy like me. That's when it really hit home; there are a ton of geeky girls, they just define geeky differently.
For places where this is a regular issue, I'd say Allow police officers to inflict corporal punishment as a summary procedure.
I'm watching a lot of youtubes of (US) police bodycams and man it's hard to argue otherwise. Of course, it's a biaised sample, but man does it seem unreasonably annoying to have to deal with someone who believes they are going to argue, refuse to comply their way out of a ticket and then physically resist and yell and twist their way out of an arrest. I think there might be some people who'd become more reasonable if they were clearly told by the police "if you do not shut up and comply, I am empowered to beat your ass".
There are also of course, police officers who seem to jump to every opportunity to claim battery on a law enforcement officer. I get that anything that can discourage resisting is probably good in the end, but resisting is already its own charge, it makes me lose some respect for the officers if they feel like a suspect lightly pushing back on them while resisting is them being "battered".
I'm also confused by how many people in the US seem to be driving without their license on them; what the fuck?
pigeonburger
2d ago
You don't have to be a genius at economics to understand "Less hot girls are making more money than you in escorting while doing less. If you want to make more money, you just need move to where there are more rich, lonely, awkward guys." While I don't finish that fast, I'm pretty sure you don't need to elaborate much more for this to be within intellectual reach of anyone with an IQ of 95. Probably 90.
pigeonburger
5d ago
whereas photorealistic AI-gen porn looks just like real life except with every conceivable imperfection mercilessly rooted out.
Honestly, this was already the case before AI-gen porn, for some categories of it. The high-end, "classy", "art" porn from central/eastern europe already has models-style girls with few imperfections to begin with, with top quality Hollywood level make up, flattering lighting, poses and angles and post-processing erasing whatever was there. So I think unrealistically perfect was already a thing before AI-gen.
Obviously consuming either kind of porn to excess will mess with your head. But which do you think is worse?
As a previously healthy consumer of porn (mostly reformed), sometimes you're in the mood for those perfectly shot videos, but also sometimes you're up for real amateur content, for fake amateur content, for 2000s early online productions, for 1990s italian hardcore flicks, for 70s classic films, for drawn content, for 3D CGI content, for softcore...
I think what is worse is being laser-focussed on a single thing and letting that shape your tastes. Checking many things out and being aroused by many of them is healthy.
pigeonburger
7d ago
The accounts I had read gave the impression Digwa was considered by his own community as overly enthusiastic about knives and swords, in that context, the provocation that led to him murdering Nowak might have been a mere pretext for doing something he's always dreamed of doing.
pigeonburger
8d ago
The answer to that will be an even fuller embrace of cloud computing by every software manufacturer. It will be the end of running commercial software locally where you could possibly decompile, crack or copy it. Every software publisher will only allow you to interact with their software through cloud computing, that way they can avoid needing to copyright their software. This includes games (the infrastructure is slowing coming into place to allow this).
How much would it really costs to remake them like 1.5-2.5 b which is significantly less than the initially paid for the IP.
I think the real cost, the real problem, is the reputational hit from admitting they fucked up, alongside the shame, blame, and perhaps even legal responsability, it puts on the creators (producers, directors and writers, mostly) of the publically disgraced movies and the chilling effect it would have on future works.
Imagine how it would go! It's hardly a new phenomenon, bad movies get made all the time at all budget levels, but admitting it means throwing people under the bus. It means telling, quite directly, to the dozens of fans of episodes 7-9 as they are that they have objectively bad taste, talk about spitting on someone's soul. For any producer, director or writer who is about to work on a Disney movie, they'll have seen how Disney failed to stand behind their works. Are they going to imply the movie I worked years on is shit if it doesn't make them enough money? For the public, they'll have seen how Disney swore, for years, to the tune of billions of dollars that episode 7, 8 and 9 were the sequels we always wanted to the Star Wars saga.
No, I don't think we're gonna get a redo. If that bad all women Ghostbusters movie was never officially disgraced by Sony, Disney's not going to do it with Star Wars. At least that Ghostbusters movie could be pushed into a corner never to be talked about again, while SW killed off or bastardized beloved characters. It's best for them to maintain the fiction that they were perfectly good movies that simply for whatever reason, didn't resonate enough with audiences. The best they could do to correct it is a split timeline, JJ Abrams' Star Trek-style, that they then splice over the bad one, and I have a hard time imagining them pulling it off in a way that doesn't feel like a massive ass pull; at least Star Trek had a history of time travel and diverging timelines.
pigeonburger
13d ago
NewPipe broke for a few days, but the latest update fixed it for me.
pigeonburger
14d ago
If you offered me both, I know I'd chose the rattan strikes, easily. I don't know how low the time in jail and high the amount of strikes would have to be for me to, not knowing precisely how painful the strikes are, prefer the opposite, but in my ignorance I would at least exchange up to 20 strikes for a year.
pigeonburger
14d ago
This will open the congressmen to accusations of being too lazy to go in person: "I will go every week to argue your case in-person to Washington DC and I will not be leaving until I get what's best for you, my opponent wants to phone his vote in, literally phone it in with online voting. This is not what a dogged, hardworker does!"
It's kind of stupid because the reality of campaigning means you have to promise something absurdly draining, unrealistic, and unnecessary.
I do agree that if a man is high enough status, he can probably play the "I am a humble servant and a lowly worm" schtick and still attract women. I would call that "countersignaling."
No, that's the thing, high status men don't play "signaling" games. They don't play act like they're servants, they're just bros to everyone. They just don't act like women are different in that matter.
Honestly, the second you start thinking about how to "signal" and playing games to attract women, you've lost; you're not and will not be high status that way. Maybe you'll trick some broken women into sleeping with you, which is maybe from some perspectives better than staying a virgin "nice guy". But high status men don't even know when their charm is on. I know some of these guys. They're just charisma black holes, there's no switch they don't act different to men and women, and their charm works on both equally, even straight guys. When they join a conversation, whatever the topic was is immediately dropped for everyone to talk about them and what's up with their lives and please talk more about yourself.
pigeonburger
15d ago
I disagree with the maximalist version of this. I agree if we're talking about the guy bending over backwards to help a woman because she's a woman, maybe some sort of childish misguided chivalrous ideal is pushing him and women resent that because they feel like the guy taking on this chivalrous role is trying to push her into the role of the grateful rescued maiden. But the well-liked, pillar of the community, popular with women guy is a helpful guy too. The difference is that he would help anyone, not just "fair maidens", and women know and feel that difference.
pigeonburger
17d ago
Yeah, the fact that it's trivially resolved overnight when it would be unbearably embarassing for the politicians in charge kind of proves that point.
pigeonburger
17d ago
It's not just western fast food in China, I think it's western fast food in any market where it's still seen as foreign, so (as you say) fancy.
McDonalds and Burger King in Spain blew my mind. I even saw a Tim Hortons there and was amazed at how posh it looked, I hope not too many spaniards are disappointed if they ever come here and realize that their image of fancy canadian coffee shops is a complete lie.
That's the rub, writers and the fanbase they interact with (ie: the reddit crowd) are not in the mood for optimistic sci-fi, Star Trek writers had to be dragged screaming into making Strange New Worlds, otherwise we'd still be stuck with nothing "actually, Star Trek has always been about opposing Trump and Brexit".
Stargate is inherently optimistic, but not blind either, about humanity. Not a hypothetical future humanity like Star Trek, but humanity as it currently is. The government and military are not perfect, but mostly act in the interest of the people. As you say, benevolent conspiracy. Even with a big technological disadvantage, humanity is able to more than pull its weight on the galactic scene. And its not foreign values that makes humanity powerful, it's deeply human ones. Even our flaws are cast as advantages, frequent wars on earth made humans good at fighting, at making weapons, better in many ways than warrior races (Mass Effect put this idea too in its lore).
If they were to try making it now, the writers would have to write it while thinking "if it were real, Trump would be the highest authority in charge of the Stargate program". Their own biases made it easy to ignore when it was Clinton, and they did push more evil politician stories during the Bush era, but that was after establishing the program as benevolent. But I don't think they would be able to do it now.
pigeonburger
18d ago
For me, it never left
FPS often offer gyro aiming on controllers that have a gyro, it allows quick precision adjustments for aiming, helping bridge the gap between controllers and kb+m players. The idea is that you make fast turns with the thumbstick and small adjustments in aim at the same time with the gyro.
pigeonburger
21d ago
Imagine society has devalued the concept of marriage to the point where to younger generations it's either just something religious people do or that people do for convenience (taxes, finances, immigration, etc...), you end up eventually needing to reinvent a concept to separate the "trial run" of being with someone and a serious long-term partnership with someone.
pigeonburger
22d ago
It's seeing someone take candy from an innocent baby and going "I should steal candy from babies too". The vengeance narrative is not a good defense, but it's the only thing that even slightly appears acceptable because stealing from a baby (or from American taxpayers) is obviously wrong.
That framing does not work. "Stealing candy from a baby" is a meme because the baby is a) helpless, b) doesn't have anything worth stealing but you're doing it anyway. As a result from b), you're likely doing it for a stupid ego reason rather than some strategic gain. Here, the baby is not helpless, is the richest collective entity on earth, and the Democrats (and now Republicans) have been appropriating that money to fund their political ambitions.
So, no, not at all like your analogy.
pigeonburger
23d ago
Non-domiciled CDL holders (aka. foreign drivers) have been involved in a rash of high profile accidents, prompting a crackdown on non-domiciled CDLs, but the federal government doesn't track accident rates based on CDL type, so there is no data that presents a smoking gun suggestion that non-domiciled CDL holders have a higher crash rate than US citizen drivers.
Interestingly, Canada has a similar, or maybe even worse, issue. Ontario's truck licensing program is in the hand of a company that has a major corruption scandal. Of course the CBC is carefully avoiding mentioning it but the main beneficiaries of the corruption are recent Indian arrivals, hence why the trucks in question (Ontario plates and Indian drivers) are called "flying carpets". Now if Ontario doesn't care that's one thing, but Ontario trucks find themselves all over North America, especially since these practices make them undercut other Canadian trucking companies.
Yeah, I know, but the problem is that the population want to limit migration but they never want to have to be the meanies who say "no" to people, especially sympathetic cases (real international students who integrate, equivalents to america's H1Bs who are really filling unresolved gaps in the job market that locals cannot fill, genuine refugees from wartorn areas...) So a points system seem like a good solution because it takes the decision out of their hands but on its own, it isn't all encompassing, and unless you're also willing to say "no" to people in those alternative pathways, immigration will simply route around the points system into those pathways.
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